Breakfast Burritos

There are just some memories that stay with us for a long time.  One of those memories for me is making breakfast burritos with my family.  I can remember my parents going out and shopping for all the ingredients that they would need to make 100 breakfast burritos for their Sunday School class.  Once we had all the ingredients, we would all work together and assemble the breakfast burritos.  We really had a good time, well most of the time.  What can I say we're not perfect, and I'm sure there were times when me and my brother got on each others nerves while we were making the burritos. :)  But....for the most part the making of breakfast burritos always brings back great family memories.

Recently I have begun making freezer burritos for Matt and I.  We have such a busy life over here in Kentucky and with Matt working the night shift I had to find a way to make a nutritious meal that he could take with him to work.  So I thought, and thought and thought some more.  Than I remembered....BURRITOS!!! So, now I've been creating many different kinds of freezer burritos for Matt to take to work with him.  Then I was trying to figure out what to make for breakfast that was quick and nutritious and it dawned on me....duh....breakfast burritos!!!  So, I thought that I would share with y'all my recipe for breakfast burritos.  Hope you enjoy the pics and the recipe.  I'd love to hear back from any of you who make these.  Remember, burritos are very versatile, in other words you don't have to follow my recipe exactly.  Add items to them that your family likes. :)

Note:  for those of you who like knowing the individual cost of these homemade burritos, they end up costing $.65!!!

First,  The Ingredients for 32 breakfast burritos:

• 36 Eggs
• 1 Large Bag of Hash browns (I like the shredded kind, but you can use any kind you like.) 
• 36 Tortillas (I used 8 inch, but I would rather use 10 - 12 inch if I could find them for a good price here in KY.)
• 2 Rolls of Breakfast Sausage (You could also use bacon, ham, chorizo, etc...)
• 2 lbs of Mexican Style Cheese (Feel free to use your family's favorite type of cheese)
• Seasonings:  Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder, and Seasoning Salt

After gathering all your ingredients up, I start cooking my sausage first.

You can just follow the package instructions for cooking whatever meat you have chosen for your burrito, but I just cook the sausage until it's nice and brown.

Next I begin to cook my hash browns. Once again, just cook them according to the package directions.  

Once the hash browns are in the pan (I like to use my well-seasoned cast iron pan) I use seasoning salt, pepper and garlic powder to season them to taste.  Once again, you can use whatever seasonings your family likes on their potatoes.  

Once the hash browns have been seasoned I let them cook until they have been browned on both sides.  Like this:  

While your hash browns and sausage are cooking begin cracking your 36 eggs.  I know this is a lot of eggs, and it's kind of gross looking, but eggs are a really inexpensive filler for your burritos especially if you buy them at Costco.

Once you've cracked all your eggs, your bowl should look like this.  It looks pretty strange at this point.

Now, go ahead and season those eggs.  I just use salt and pepper, but once again, use whatever seasonings your family likes.

Once your eggs have been seasoned, go ahead and start whisking them until all the yolks and whites have been beat together.  

Now spray down your large pan with oil.

Pour in half the whisked eggs...

And cook those eggs until they're nice and fluffy.  I cook my eggs in two batches, but I guess you could try doing it in one if you want.

Now, your sausage, potatoes and eggs should all be cooked so it's almost time to start assembling, but first let's warm up our tortillas.  I found a really cool microwaveable tortilla warmer at Kroger's so I use this to warm my tortillas, but you could just wrap 6 of them at a time in a damp dishcloth and microwave on high for 2 minutes.  This step is just to get the tortillas pliable.  

Before I move on with this tutorial, I wanted to show you a picture of my small kitchen.  Believe it or not, this kitchen is much bigger than the last kitchen that we had here on campus.  Even though it is small it works just fine for assembling burritos.  So, the point is, you can make burritos in any size kitchen!!

Ok, now for assembling the burritos, there really is no special way to do it, you just put a little bit of each ingredient in the tortilla.  Well, here is a picture so you can see how I have my "assembly line" set up. 

And here is a picture of a burrito that is ready to be folded.

If you've never folded a burrito before, there are many tutorials on how to do it on You tube, but it is really easy once you get the hang of it. 

After rolling up your burrito, wrap it in foil and then it's ready for the freezer.  (I use pop up foil because it is so much easier than having to rip off a bunch of sheets of foil.  If you're in Kentucky you can buy pop up foil at Gordon Food Services, and if you're in California, you can buy it at Smart and Final.)

After you're finished stuffing, rolling, and wrapping all of your burritos, you'll have a burrito tower on your counter like this:  

Now it's time to transfer all those burritos to the freezer.

Once you're ready to eat one of your yummy burritos, simply wrap them in a damp cloth or paper towel and microwave on high for 2 min and 15 sec.  (You may need to adjust the time depending on your microwave.)  All the burritos on the right of this pic are the breakfast burritos that I just made, and the ones on the left are the dinner burritos that I made a few weeks ago.  Praise the Lord for burritos!! 

Theses burritos have been a life saver for our morning breakfasts and I hope they can help you all to have a great start to your morning as well.  

First Year of Seminary....Done!!!

Wow, can you believe that title?!!  Yep, it's true, Matt has officially finished his first year of seminary here at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  Looking back it seems like it was both quick and slow at the same time.  Does that even make sense?  Probably not, but anyways, that's how it felt.  God has been so good to us during this past school year.  That's not to say that life has been smooth sailing the whole way, but we have learned from the bumps in the path along the way.  God is good all the time.  Well, I know that it's been over a month since I last posted so I wanted to give a little picture update of what we've been up to so, here it goes:  

Spring has been so beautiful over here in Kentucky.  I've never seen so many flowering trees in one place before.  

Just had to put this black and white picture in that I took.  I know...it's just a weed, but the fields here were so full of these "wishing flowers,"  that they looked absolutely amazing and I couldn't help taking many pictures of these "weeds." 

We went to Bernheim Forest right when all the trees were just beginning to get their leaves.  This picture is taken on what they call the canopy walk.  It is a long wooden walkway that protrudes out over the tops of the trees in the forest.  

Here's Matt relaxing in our hammock at Bernheim Forest.

And here I am, probably uploading pictures to Facebook.  :) 

Here I am in front of one of the many blooming trees over here.  This one is a type of magnolia tree.  

Relaxing by the lake in Bernheim Forest.  

We visited the Yew Dell Botanical Gardens and they had this neat castle there.  Now Matt wants to live in a castle house when we're done with Seminary and can get our own house. :) 

Matt enjoyed eating his popcorn while we strolled through the gardens.  

There were so many beautiful flowers to look at while we were at the Botanical Gardens.  

Here's where Matt spends a lot of his time studying...at the library here on campus.  

He also likes to study in his office in our new apartment.  

Here is a picture of our new apartment complex:  Springdale Apartments on campus.  We're the one on the second floor.  They're so much nicer than the other apartments we were living in on campus.

Well, we've kept busy over this past month as you can see from these pictures.  A few more updates are listed below:

• Matt will begin pastoring at Turner's Station Baptist Church this Sunday (5/19/13).
• Matt's job is going very well, and God has blessed us financially.
• I love my Nanny job!!!
• I'm still cooking up lots of burritos and freezing them for dinners.  (I'll try to upload some of my recipes for these burritos soon.)
• On June 10th, we will officially have lived in Kentucky for a year.
• My parents will be coming out to visit us mid July.  (I'm so excited!!)

It's Spring and It's Snowing!!!

Okay, I know that this post has kind of a strange title.  But...I didn't know how else to title a post that is going to cover so many topics, so I just looked outside, saw it was snowing, and realized that last week was the first day of Spring.  It really doesn't feel that Springy with snow falling, but it is pretty.  We don't get really bad snow here, so we don't get snowed in or anything like that.  It is pretty cold here though, and I'm really looking forward to some warmer weather.  This California girl does not like these prolonged periods of very cold weather.

So, I think it goes without saying that I have been very bad on keeping up with this blog this year.  I think that I need to schedule a notification on my phone that will pop up and remind me to write a post. :)  Well, we have been pretty busy over here, but I'll try to keep this post as short as possible, so y'all don't have to be here for hours reading it.

So, let me just some up our lives since February in bullet points.

• Matt is taking a full load of 9 units here at Seminary.
• I no longer work as a preschool assistant at Christian Academy. (no I didn't get fired.) :)
• I made a career change and decided to look for positions as a nanny.
• Within 2 days of beginning my search for a nanny position I had an interview (Praise God!)
• I was hired as a full-time nanny the same week that I began looking for a position.
• My salary for being a nanny is double what I was making at Christian Academy.
• Matt is now required to work mandatory overtime at his job.
• This mandatory overtime is a blessing because we are doing our best to get out of debt.
• We are doing are best to find creative ways to spend time with each other.
• We will be moving out of Fuller Apartments.
• We will move into Springdale Apartments on April 3rd.
• These apartments are on campus and a lot bigger than what we're in now.  
• Matt will be preaching full-time at a small rural church in Turners Station, KY beginning this summer.  
• God is so good, and He is blessing us in so many ways!!!

Okay, so that's what's been going on with us in a nut shell.  Now, I know that if you're all like me, you would rather see pictures than read a bunch of words, so here are our most recent pictures since February.  

Matt got me flowers and sushi for Valentines Day.  I have the sweetest husband!!

We wen't to the Louisville Slugger Museum for one of our date days.  We ate tacos at a little taco shop in downtown Louisville called Taco Punk, and we had coffee at a cute little coffee shop called Please & Thank You also in downtown.  We had a great time and enjoyed the rare opportunity to have time to be with each other.

For another date day Matt and I went to the Louisville Dog Show at the fair grounds.   Neither of us had ever been to a real dog show before, so it was quite an experience for us.  We had a great time, and we especially enjoyed the agility trials for the dogs.  Matt's favorite dog was the Cattle Dog, and mine was the Grey Hound.

Here is a picture of the house where I'm a nanny at.  I really really really love being a nanny.  The two kids that I nanny are ages 5 and 7.  The girl is 5 and the boy is 7.  The family is amazing, and I thank God every day that He has given me this awesome opportunity to serve this family as their nanny.

Lastly, I wanted to post a video of our first home here at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the Fuller Apartment.  I say our first home because we will be moving to a larger on campus apartment next week.  So, If you're interested to see how we set up our 500 sq foot apartment go ahead and enjoy this clip.  

Thank you all for taking the time to read through this blog.  We want you all to know that we miss all of you back in California, but that God is so good in providing for us while we are over here in Seminary.  Please continue to pray that God would make His will clear for us for after Seminary.